CFP: [African-American] 9th Annual Craft Critique Culture Conference

CRAFT CRITIQUE CULTURE is an interdisciplinary conference focusing on theintersections among critical and creative approaches to writing bothwithin and beyond the academy. This yearâ€™s conference will examine theimbrication of affect and empire and will explore the ways in whichaffect blurs the lines between presence, absence, past, present, future,coloniality, postcoloniality and other liminal or ephemeral textual andidentity positions within the increasingly globalized experience of ourpresent moment.

How can emotional states foster critical theory, whether it be social-scientific, cultural, literary, technological, popular, communication,queer, postcolonial, new media, transnational, diasporic, neo-Marxist,feminist or other modes of theory? How does theory further our sense ofliberation, affiliation and identity?

We invite the submission of critical, theoretical and original creativework in a variety of media and across the humanities, sciences and legaldisciplines. In the past, submissions have included not only traditionalscholarly papers but also film, video, music, writing, visual art andartistsâ€™ books.

Please submit paper abstracts of no more than 350 words â€" creativepresentations also accepted.

Full panels (featuring three papers) may also be proposed. Each panelproposal should consist of three paper abstracts and a brief explanationof the panelâ€™s purpose and relevance to the conference. Each panelsubmission not to total more than 1,000 words.